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At first I laughed, assuming the online apartment listing I was eyeing was just being overly specific. "This one actually lists that the apartment has a refrigerator," I snickered to my now-husband as we searched for our first apartment in L.A. "Thanks. Does it have a toilet, too?" "No, that's...

The so-called "n-word" is the most powerful word in the English language -- evidenced by the fact that the editors of this newspaper, which occasionally prints the word "fuck," have deemed it unfit to spell it out in this case. But somehow the hip-hop-inflected "nigga" has become slightly less potent...

We're tickled, of course, that CNN thinks "L.A. Is a Heavenly Place." We do, too! But as so many L.A.-ophiles discovered upon actually reading the meat of the article, writer Jennifer Wolfe thinks of L.A. like a postcard, not the smoggy grimy wasteland we've come to call heaven. The piece...

Update: A record high of 91 was set in the San Gabriel Valley today. (As well as highs in the upper 80s at LAX and UCLA.) Pity party at our house! Los Angeles journalists think any shift in the weather is breaking news. If it's cold, you can expect a...

Here's a little L.A. road rage to brighten your Hump Day, brought to you by a more-insightful-than-average, if somewhat hypocritical, YouTuber who thinks most cops, and food trucks, drive better than the majority of cars on Wilshire. We're not apt to spotlight every angry traffic rant posted on the Tubes,...

Ranter: Tiny, elderly woman in a pink straw hat; fortyish guy in sunglasses applauding her. Location: The sidewalk outside the post office at 4951 West Washington Time: 11 a.m. on a Thursday Topics Covered: Injustices of the justice system; the inadequacy of CalFresh; how each generation is increasingly unmoored from...